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About 9:45 p.m. Friday, James Betchan, 70, of Covington was headed north on Interstate 35 just north of Perry when his Dodge S250 ran off the roadway and into a ditch, according to the troopers.
Betchan was pronounced dead at the scene due to a previous medical condition, which troopers said caused the crash. No one else was injured in the crash.
A school bus was involved in an accident with a truck Thursday morning, according to Oklahoma City firefighters. The collision occurred near North Morgan and West Hefner roads, authorities say. There were students on the bus at the time of the crash and firefighters say some suffered minor scrapes, bumps and bruises.
Traffic was backed up Wednesday evening on the Broadway Extension because of an injury accident, Oklahoma City police said.
A three-car injury accident near Hefner Road on the northbound Broadway Extension caused traffic to back up more than a mile during rush hour, police said.
Hardin said she did not know how many people were injured in the wreck or their conditions.
Oklahoma City police said a crash that killed a father of four young children was caused by a man who was high on drugs. Oklahoma City police said Dustin Hall, 31, caused a crash Monday night near NE 10th and N. Standish. According to officers, Hall was high on drugs and admitted to looking down at his phone. Ronald Banton, 27, was killed in the crash. His 5-year-old son JaeRon was in the car with him but was not hurt. Hall was arrested and police said he could be charged with second-degree murder.
A man was arrested Monday after another man was killed in a northeast Oklahoma City traffic accident, police reported. Dustin Shane Hall, 31, was arrested on complaints of driving under the influence of drugs and causing a fatality accident and being without a state driver's license, police said. Ronald Banton, 27, was driving about 11:30 a.m. eastbound on NE 10 near Standish Avenue, when he stopped to turn left. Hall was driving behind Banton and looked down. When he looked back up, he crashed into Banton's car. Banton was taken to OU Medical Center, where he died.
A man died Sunday morning after his pickup hit a sport utility vehicle in Creek County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
About 9:20 a.m., William Walkup, 75, of Sapulpa, was driving westbound on State Highway 33 near 193 West Avenue. The pickup spun out on the slick road and crossed left of center. It hit a sport utility vehicle in the eastbound lanes driven by Michael Scalf, 42, of Bixby, troopers said.
Walkup died at the scene. Scalf was taken to a Tulsa hospital for treatment, troopers said.
Gregory Loren, 45, died in a head-on wreck about 7:50 a.m. near S Portland Avenue and SW 10, police said.
The wreck happened in dense fog.
A tractor-trailer driver was northbound on Portland when the driver swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid rear-ending stopped traffic. The tractor-trailer hit a southbound car head-on.
Loren, a passenger in the car, was dead at the scene. A woman driving the car was not hurt, Oklahoma City police said. The tractor-trailer driver was taken to a hospital to be checked for injuries.
A man was killed in a collision in southwest Oklahoma City in dense fog Tuesday, police said.
A tractor-trailer and a car collided about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of S Portland Ave., police said.
Two tractor-trailers and a pickup are involved in an injury crash on U.S. 281 at County Road 1240 in Grady County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. Emergency workers have responded to the scene to assist with traffic control in the dense fog, the patrol reports.
Other accidents have been reported.